A Teeny "I Told You So"

I didn't say it out loud - well not exactly - because people who have to say "I told you so" annoy me. But when this semester (Accouting, Finance, Economics, ohmigosh will it never end?!) began, our instructor suggested we each buy a scientific calculator. (Also good for the Dreaded Statistics coming up next semester.) I found a ton of them at The Dollar Tree for - what do you suppose - $1.00 apiece. Since Irish and I are pinching pennies these days (who isnt'?), I snatched one up. Took it to class the next week and told everyone about the great deal at the dollar store and they laughed. The general consensus being that if you pay a buck for a calculator, it's probably worthless. Well this one has held up so far and done exactly what I've needed. I've gotten my dollar's worth out of it already.

So tonight a friend of mine (we also work together) who's had to borrow a caculator every week finally came to class with a brand-new one, still in the package. Famous name brand, anyone would recognize it, she paid $30.00 for it at the office supply store. It doesn't do what she needs. Doesn't carry numbers past a single decimal point and she can't get it to display negative numbers. I didn't say "I told you so", I promise - but I laughed. I couldn't help myself. Everyone else was too good for the cheapies at the dollar store and here she paid 30x what I did - and it didn't do what she needed it to! I'm still grinning. Sometimes bargain hunting is a blast.

(PS - She did look at the instruction booklet and figured out how to get it to show four decimal places and negative numbers so she's not going to be helpless in class. But mine did it right out of the package.)